Community Tissue Services Expands Outreach

Statewide Procurement Activities to Increase

pand its procurement services. Performing the rituals associated with death, such as funerals, help the grieving process move toward closure. Delays can add to grief. With this in mind, Community Tissue Services will be providing tissue procurement teams in local communities. This will reduce the time grieving families need wait for their loved ones' bodies to arrive at the funeral home. It also reduces the time needed for the hospital and/or coroner and funeral home to prepare the donor for burial.

The organization hopes to expand local services to even more communities in its service area. If you would like to have a local procurement team situated near you, please contact the Indiana Donation Alliance

at 1-800-356-7757.

The goal of Community Tissue Services is to con-sistently supply quality service to families, hospitals, coroners, funeral directors, recipients and transplant surgeons. The Indiana Lions Eye Bank shares these ob-jectives and both organizations salute all who make donation and transplantation a reality.

Leigh Anne Myers, Director, CTS

Kathi Rohr, Director

of Procurement, CTS

Community Tissue Services (CTS) and the Indiana Lions Eye Bank (ILEB) cooperate in the donation process. Due to efforts of the Indiana Lions Eye Bank that have increased referrals screened and consents obtained, Community Tissue Services is planning to ex-